Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-05
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Measles of most violent type is raging
in the Feasterville section of Fairfield
county. r
{ Fire at, Lancaster Tuesday night of last
week destroyed the drug store of Crawford
& Bruner. Loss about $4,000; insurance
$500. +
- John S. Reynolds, Esq, for the past ten
years one of the editors of the Winnsboro
iNe,cs, having severed his connection with
that paper, has moved to Columbia.
,~f-Deputy Revenue Collector J. L. Black
made a Christmas raid among the moon
sinners of a section IS miles above Green
Vile and destroyed three active distilleries
and over 1000. gallons of beer and mash,
aggregating $500 or $40O in value.
AT Georges Station on Tuesday, sad
accident occurred. Sidney B. Abbott, q
bright young man about24 years of age,
local editor of the Georges, Neacs, was run
over by horse and instantly killed. He
had just won the first prizeat tourpament
and crowned the queen when the accident
occurred. His neck was broken. y,
On Christmas afternoon, difficulty oc-
curred.at Mr.. Dave Ruff's about nine miles
from Newberry, between Bachman Lomi-
nick and Robert Sligh, in which Lominick
was cut in the left side within an inch of
.gf bis heaxt which, itais thought will prove
the influence of whisky.
Special detective III, T. Harris, of Ca
tawba county, n. c., made raid last Fri.
day in Fishing Creek Factory in search of
North Carolina for the murder, on Christ
mas day, of Pearce Harmon. Although
the search was fruitless thecriminal is close
ly pursued and will, perhaps, be taken soon.
1t is understood that there are several re-
wards offered for his arrest.s
Austin, seventeen year old
fson of John Fl. Austin, of Anderson coun-
ty, accidentally shot and killed himself
Wednesday while out hunting. He and
some other boys had found a squirrel up a
tree. Young Austin fired at the squirrel
and missedit. He was going backward to
get another shot at it and fell over log.
His gun was accidentally discharged, the
contents taking effect in his neck just un-
der his chin, killing him instantly.
The Winnsboro NeWs says that labor
ers are scarcer in the northwestern section
of Fairfield county than they have been for
a number of years. It seems to be due to
tile fact that agents from the Western States
have been recently stirring up the negroes,
and persuading them to try their fortunes
IN the west. 1t IS SAID TO De almost I'M
possible to get any laborers for wages.
They are also scarce in other sections of the
county.
Says the Barnwell People,: So far, r,lonly
90 persons, all told, have gone to Arkansas
from the line of the Port Royal railroad
so we learn from a thoroughly reliable and
we'll informed gentleman-and they have
gone, not from dissatisfaction with the eight
box law or the priority lien law, but be-
cause of hard times and the desire for new
things. If similar inducements were Of
fered it would be easy to get more white
people to 20 than the colored people who
have already taken their departure.
Charleston Ne,cs and Courier: The flight
of stone steps running from the basement
to the fourth floor of the old Elliot mansion
in George street, now owned and used by
the Charleston water works, has recently
been pulled down, and a substantial wood
en- stair case erected in its place. The stone
was brought here from England many years
ago, and the work is said to have cost s11, :
900. 1t was probably the only stone stair
way Of the kind in any private house in
the South, but was so damaged by the
earthquake that it had to be tuken down.